{"id":1278,"date":"2011-09-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2011-09-04T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-04T08:00:00","slug":"why-are-biker-boots-so-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Biker Boots So Tall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-saoBvbUAgo4\/TmK5r152ThI\/AAAAAAAADCs\/HpPTDb0tIBw\/s1600\/bikerbootstall.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"56\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-saoBvbUAgo4\/TmK5r152ThI\/AAAAAAAADCs\/HpPTDb0tIBw\/s400\/bikerbootstall.jpg?resize=400%2C56\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;\">Google directed a question to my website that asks, &#8220;why are biker boots so tall?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MMw2LRpjwiM\/TmK7yi-oKQI\/AAAAAAAADCw\/rY_piCeraMg\/s1600\/BHDI74b.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-MMw2LRpjwiM\/TmK7yi-oKQI\/AAAAAAAADCw\/rY_piCeraMg\/s320\/BHDI74b.jpg?resize=121%2C320\" width=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It is a rather simple answer:  for safety.  Tall boots that bikers wear come from a long tradition where men want their legs protected from two main hazards &#8212; heat from the engine and exhaust pipes, as well as from stuff that comes flying at the legs from the road. It&#8217;s amazing how much junk gets kicked up from the front tire, striking the legs at high speed. Gravel and rocks really hurt and can do a lot of damage when they strike the lower leg through thin cloth of denim jeans. (That&#8217;s also why many bikers wear chaps or leather &#8212; to protect the legs). The lower leg has a rather thin layer of skin over the shin bone.  That thin skin is easily damaged and injured when struck by even a small piece of gravel, pebble, or stone that comes flying at you from the front tire.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, in my opinion, tall boots look cool. <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s your answer to this question &#8212; tall boots provide protection to the fragile skin of the lower leg, and they also look cool on a biker.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  real bikers wear boots (not sneakers, sandals, or flip-flops).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google directed a question to my website that asks, &#8220;why are biker boots so tall?&#8221; It is a rather simple answer: for safety. Tall boots that bikers wear come from a long tradition where men want their legs protected from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1278\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}